Dialogue Books showcase with Liv Little and Irenosen Okojie

Join us for the launch of two exciting new books from Liv Little and Irenosen Okojie, published by Dialogue Books!

Bitter Melon - The hotly anticipated second novel from Liv Little, founder of gal-dem and author of Rosewater.

Jalissa and her dad aren’t close, but when he invites her to Jamaica, his homeland, for the first time, she says yes. She's running from heartbreak and a loss of her own; he’s running out of time.

As they travel through sun-drenched towns and navigate tangled family roots, old wounds open and long-held silences begin to break. They’re both trying to outrun something, but along the way they cross paths with people whose stories shift their own, helping them face the past, reckon with the present and reimagine what comes next.

Bitter Melon is a tender, funny, heart-bruised road trip into memory,mortality and the fierce, fragile love between a daughter and the father she's still learning to understand.

Quixotic Fissures - In this hybrid memoir, Okojie moves through the landscapes of the body and the mind: illness and depression, inheritance and grief, prejudice and belonging, memory and desire. She considers the ways trauma settles in the body, and the unexpected ways healing can travel through generations. Tracing her reconnection with her cultural heritage, finding in the music, movement and traditions of her family new ways of understanding herself.

With breathtaking prose and acute intelligence, she recalls the oddness and violence of an English girls’ boarding school; the sacrifices and pleasures of a life in pursuit of art; and the indelible marks we make upon one another in our bids for connection.

Throughout, Okojie moves between the intimate and the expansive, harnessing a boundless imagination that celebrates the evolving body moving through life, with all its pain and glory. Quixotic Fissures is a powerful collection about the strange, beautiful work of transformation.

Irenosen and Liv will be in conversation with Nikesh Shukla here at bookhaus. Tickets cost £7 and include a glass of wine or soft drink and £2 off the books. Presented by bookhaus.